Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Hilarious and surprisingly deep. The premise is that a man who looks and sounds deeply disturbed and homeless shows up at a diner in LA saying he’s from the future and looking for a team of people to help him save the world.

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Initially, people act as we’ve come to expect them to - ignoring the person and threatening to call the authorities. In between the time that the waitress calls the police and the police arrive the seemingly-crazy guy tells the people in the diner things about themselves that he couldn’t possibly know, adding that this is the 117th time he’s done this. With a group assembled, they take off to save the world.

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This film has really strong directorial choices and exceedingly disturbing themes (like that the government is subsidizing the cloning of children who’ve been shot in a school shootings rather than get rid of guns) that are couched in a hilarious script and fast pacing.

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There’s a main story that involves the group from the diner, and we’re also given the backstory of each character which explains why they’ve chosen to get involved in the endeavor. It’s brilliant and Sam Rockwell carries it fabulously.

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Absurd, funny, tragic and true, this film tanked at the box office, but I suspect it will become a cult classic. The style of storytelling is a bit chaotic which I think speaks to a new generation of movie-watchers.

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